Motivational Quotes

Art

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

- Motherwell, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.